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גֵּא

gêʼ · H1341 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. proud, arrogant

    State in which humans have an elevated status in their own eyes, which is seen as a negative and undesirable attitude for humans

    Examples

    Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry
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גֵּא describes a proud or arrogant disposition, as in Isaiah 16:6's condemnation of Moab's excessive pride and arrogance.
Word family 15 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גָּאָה gâʼâh · H1342 · to grow, to become tall, to become high · 7×גָּאוֹן gâʼôwn · H1347 · thicket, greatness, glory · 49×גַּאֲוָה gaʼăvâh · H1346 · rising, swelling, greatness · 19×גַּו gav · H1459 · midst, same, there-in · 13×גְּוִיָּה gᵉvîyâh · H1472 · body, corpse · 13×גֵּאֶה gêʼeh · H1343 · proud, arrogant · 8×גֵּאוּת gêʼûwth · H1348 · rising, swelling, greatness · 8×גֵּו gêv · H1460 · back, to cast behind (one's) back · 7×גַּו gav · H1458 · to cast behind (one's) back · 3×גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1466 · pride, proud, arrogant · 3×גֵּאgêʼ · H1341גֵּאָה gêʼâh · H1344 · pride, arrogance · 1×גַּאֲיוֹן gaʼăyôwn · H1349 · proud, arrogant · 1×גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1465 · pride, proud, arrogant · 1×גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1467 · pride · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1341. ge גֵּא adjective proud, scribal error for גֵּאֶה Isa 16:6 (as in Jer 48:29).
H1341. ge
גֵּא adjective proud, scribal error for גֵּאֶה Isa 16:6 (as in Jer 48:29).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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